gitignore

In the root of my project I have a foo folder. Inside the foo folder I have a bar folder. I would like to ignore all changes to all files inside my bar folder. I have this in my gitignore : /foo/bar The folder is checked: it exists and it has the files to be ignored. gitignore is commit ted. However, I have a file where I make a moification and is inside my bar folder. When I type git status inside my git bash I see the file which should have been ignored. What could be the reason and how can I successfully ignore all files inside my bar folder? Note, that the files were previously ignored

Anyone know if it is possible to ignore all the instances of a particular directory in a file structure managed by git. I'm looking to exclude all the 'target' folders in a maven project with a number of submodules. I know I can explicitly exclude each of them in a top level .gitignore, but I'd really like to be able to specify a pattern like **/target/* there to have it automatically ignore the instance in sub directories? Is this possible? baudtack It is possible to use patterns in a .gitignore file. See the gitignore man page . The pattern */target/* should ignore any directory named target

When you use git rm --cached myfile it doesn't delete from the local filesystem, which is the goal. But if you've already versioned and committed the file, pushed it to a central repository, and pulled it into yet another repository before using the command, it will delete the file from that system. Is there a way to just remove the file from versioning without deleting it from any filesystem? Edit: Clarified, I hope. I do not think a Git commit can record an intention like “stop tracking this file, but do not delete it”. Enacting such an intention will require intervention outside Git in any